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Price: $18.00
Publisher: Toronto, Thomas Allen Publishers: 1937
Edition: First ( No Additional printings)
Seller ID: 006826
Original green cloth on boards. Reprints of original newspaper articles. Spine grubby. Interior clean. 201 pp. View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Oxford, England, Humphrey Milford: 1935
Seller ID: 005770
Original brown paper boards backed in beige cloth. Heavy book will need extra postage. 510 pp. plus ads. A few random selections include The Beginnings of Printing in New Hampshire, Further notes on Romanesque Bindings, and Books Illustrated by Albert Durer. View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Oxford, England, Humphrey Milford: 1936
Edition: Fourth Series, Vol. XVI
Seller ID: 005771
Original brown paper boards backed in beige cloth. Random articles include Medieval Parchment-Making, The Printers of the Coverdale Bible (1535), and The Early Nineteenth-Century Drama. Heavy book will need extra postage. 475 pp. plus ads. Some uncut edges. View more info
By: Moore, Thomas
Price: $15.00
Publisher: N.Y., H.M. Caldwell Co.: 1893
Seller ID: 003651
Original grey paper boards heavily decorated in gilt, with pictorial pastedown of fisherman. A beautiful but rather fragile Caldwell binding showing some edge wear to covers and gutter strain inside. This romantic novel is thought to have had a decided influence upon Ralph Waldo Emerson whose father apparently had a topical interest in India. No writing. 327 pp., including Notes. View more info
By: Mr. Titmarsh(William Makepeace Thackeray)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons: 1888
Edition: Routledge's Pocket Library
Seller ID: 001020
Original red half-cloth on brown marbled boards, no DJ. The second monthly volume in Routledge's Pocket Library. Front hinge repaired, and minor corner and spine damage. Small print, but clean and readable. 336 pp. View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Oxford, England, Oxford University Press: 1964
Edition: Fifth Series, Vol. XIX
Seller ID: 005772
Original tan paper boards backed in beige cloth. Articles include Early Georgian Provincial Magazines, A Bibliography of the Writings of William Henry Smith, and The Binding(et cetera) of Vala. Heavy book will need extra postage. 360 pp. View more info
Price: $24.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1926
Seller ID: 006972
Original bright red cloth on boards. Faded streaks on front. Previous owner's name and bookplate. Tiny marginal check marks throughout. A book of eloquence and wisdom seldom found. 380 pp. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press: 1925
Seller ID: 004404
Original dark green cloth with paper spine label on boards. Duplicate spine label inside back cover. Spot of paper stuck to front cover. Previous owner's name in light pencil. Diary covers 1818 to 1847. Untrimmed front and foot. 215 pp. plus brief index. View more info
By: Reade, Charles
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Collins' Clear-Type Press:
Seller ID: 008588
Original deep maroon pigskin on flexible boards. Previous owner's name on dark endpaper. This novel pointed up the issue of "ship-knackers", owners who purchased only worn-out ships and profited by them until their inevitable failure, usually with significant loss of human life. Top edges gilt. 400 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Ottawa, Graphic Publishers Limited: 1930
Seller ID: 012213
Showing school stamp, so must have been used as a high school text. Begins with the "literature of knowledge" and then passes on to the higher levels of truth and beauty. Liberally underlined. 295 pp. with index. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Toronto, Copp Clark, Limited:
Seller ID: 004138
Original green pictorial cloth on boards, lettered in gold cover and spine. First free endpaper and title page are missing. Otherwise clean and sound. Stories centred around Miranda and her friendship with Kroof, the she-bear. 276 pp. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan Press, Ltd.: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 011532
Black cloth on boards. Inscribed and signed by author. No other writing and no damage. F.R. Levis had a long career as college professor in England. His wife, Queenie, worked with him in literary criticism. They published Scrutiny, a literary magazine for about 20 years. Both were known for their powerful personalities and frequent controversies. 176 pp. View more info
By: Ruskin, John
Price: $30.00
Publisher: N.Y., H.M. Caldwell Company: 1865
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 003432
Original brown suede (leather) with circular pastedown of girl's portrait. Short essays on various subjects. The binding appears similar to Caldwell's Rosemary Series of 1903. Gilt top edges. No writing. Cover pastedown is wrinkled and has edge missing. Short cover edge tear. Marbled endpapers, with front pastedown torn at head. 477 pp. View more info
By: Ruskin, John
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Orpington, Kent, George Allen: 1878
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 007423
Original full brown crushed morocco with gilt border on light boards. Cover lightly sprung. All edges gilt. Bookplate of Walter Overbeck Wade, born about 1838 in India and served in 91st Argyllshire Reg't of Foot in Greece in 1854 and 5th Administrative Battalion, Lancashire Rifle Volunteers in 1874. The text of this book is a selection of passages from Ruskin's work of 1843 on Modern Painters, as chosen by his friend Susan Beever, or Beaver, of Coniston. Nearly invis... View more info
By: Sand, George
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, George Barrie & Sons: 1900
Seller ID: 002032
Original blue cloth with fine gilt borders and signature. Translated by George Burnham Ives. Volume II only of a 2-volume set. Series titled Historic and Romantic Novels by Amandine Lucille Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant(George Sand). Begins at Chapter XXIV of The Sin of Monsieur Antoine. Top edges gilt; balance untrimmed. 342 pp. View more info
By: Sanger, Peter
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Kentville, N.S., Gaspereau Press Ltd.: 2005
Inscription: Inscribed and Signed By Author
Seller ID: 004300
Original dark grey card covers with red DJ. Inscribed and signed June 18, 2005. Author has five poetry books to his credit previously, and serves as Poetry Editor of Antigonish Review. This volume is both prose and poetry. 235 pp. plus bio. View more info
By: Savile, George (Whibley, Charles, Ed.)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Peter Davies: 1927
Edition: Limited Edition(Unnumbered)
Seller ID: 003180
Original salmon-coloured paper covered boards with green illustration and lettering. Ragged dust jacket is in two pieces laid in to front of book. Slight discolourations at top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. The book belonged to Joan Foster, one of the daughters of the Honourable Walter Foster, Premier on New Brunswick from 1917 to 1923, and later Senator of Canada. This small book measures 3 1/4" by 5" and is part of the ... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: N.Y., Lovell:
Edition: Aldine Edition
Seller ID: 000601
Original highly-decorated embossed red cloth on boards, gilt on spine. Aldine edition. Minor damage top of backstrip, OW good. 431 pp. Small stain on back cover. P.O.N. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Chicago, R.S. Peale:
Seller ID: 001221
Original red cloth highly decorated in black on boards. Gilt spine lettering. No DJ. Both hinges cracked, showing fabric, and repaired. Two leaves untrimmed at top corners. Ca. 1880. Better than a reading copy by a lesser-known publisher. The Fortunes of Nigel - 436 pp. Count Robert of Paris - 411 pp. Two long novels under one cover. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Co.:
Seller ID: 001515
Original green cloth decorated in black on boards. No DJ. One of the more popular of the Waverley Novels. Minor cover wear and bumped corners, OW very good. SEE PHOTO. 582 pp. with index. View more info
